Leeds lost pubs

Foz · Post by **Foz** » Wed 19 Mar, 2008 11:02 pm

On the same theme but not really pubs. I have heard that there were a lot of illegal drinking dens in Quarry Hill Flats? (a little beyond my memory).Does anyone recall these or is it myth?

Post by **chameleon** » Wed 19 Mar, 2008 11:16 pm

Ollie wrote: raveydavey wrote: wiggy wrote: Trojan wrote: drapesy wrote: The Former Victoria (latterly the'Trotters') on York road- now a pet shop. Quite a good name for a pub "The Fish and Reptiles" a better name for that hole would of been'the bulletts and blades'. The Fish and Reptiles would probably have summed up most of the patrons... The Dog and Gun / Melbourne/ Shaftesbury / White Horse / Eagle / Hope Inn / Woodpecker...but for the likes of me, I can not picture where the Victoria was, must be having a serious senior moment, to much Tetleys Bitter in times gone by...can some one point out the location for my brain cells to get around.Frank Or coming out of town, on the left, shortly before the flyover 'safety'camera.

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Thu 20 Mar, 2008 2:57 am

Thanks people for the info re: Victoria, can't get my head around your pic Drapsey, I think the angle and the structure is not something I can recall..only ever went in there twice while on leave from Merchant Navy, couldn't get used to the new pubs, liked the old pubs best...tap rooms and sometimes a sing along with the old piano....didn't mind the Cherry Tree though, pulled a bird or two in there.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 4:56 am

Ollie wrote: raveydavey wrote: wiggy wrote: Trojan wrote: drapesy wrote: The Former Victoria (latterly the'Trotters') on York road- now a pet shop. Quite a good name for a pub "The Fish and Reptiles" a better name for that hole would of been'the bulletts and blades'. The Fish and Reptiles would probably have summed up most of the patrons... The Dog and Gun / Melbourne/ Shaftesbury / White Horse / Eagle / Hope Inn / Woodpecker...but for the likes of me, I can not picture where the Victoria was, must be having a serious senior moment, to much Tetleys Bitter in times gone by...can some one point out the location for my brain cells to get around.Frank my niece just had her 21st in the dog and gun..

russ · Post by **russ** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 5:29 pm

i only ever went in the Victoria once when it was called that ( a wedding reception in the very early 80's i was too young to drink i was only about 10-11 at the time) but i did go in when i changed to the trotters (late 80's if i remember rightly) we used to go in on a wednesday nights it was kind of a party night (arm wrestling competitions (£ prizes) and tug of war comps they had women mud wrestling nights,blue comedian nights etc £1 a pint etc...overall it was a great wednesday night (broke the working week up anyway) but as you say wiggy there was quiet a 'rough' clientel of person that went in there but i more or less new most of them (the top boys anyway) the landlord was a guy who's first name escapes me his second name was Skyes & he was quiet a big bloke (easily 6ft 4" and 3tf wide LOL) he did if i can remember rightly have the Red Lion on Low road in Hunslet (opposite the Punchclock) i was told his by an ex- girlfriend who was my boss when i worked at Kay's catalogue (here name was Karen Marsden) .Yes i must admit there was a lot of 'faces' that went into the Trotters but overall i had a great time there (getting pi$$ed for a tenner) now that was good LOL........

johnnyg · Post by **johnnyg** » Sat 22 Mar, 2008 12:49 am

Just a quick update about the City of Mabgate pub, at the junction of Bell Street and Mabgate just behind Regent Street. It shut around 2005 and has now been converted into 2 townhouses, a flat and a small retail outlet, according to the developers. It still retains the original green glaze Burmantofts Pottery tile front and pub signage. The City of Mabgate was a Whitbread pub.

johnnyg · Post by **johnnyg** » Sat 22 Mar, 2008 12:56 am

The latest on the Skinners Arms, at the bottom of Scott Hall Road is that it is awaiting new owners/management as it currently up for letting. It shut in November after police intervened (http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 3525214.jp) and a court order was granted to close it for 3 months, but it hasn't re-opened since.The Skinners Arms was originally on the other side of Scott Hall Road, at the junction with Buslingthorpe Lane, where it faced onto Buslingthorpe Lane. The photo below is taken almost from the position of the original Skinners Arms. The original building (http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... 72_4079836) was demolished in 1930 and replaced by the one pictured here in 1932. The name came from the occupation of the customers who worked in the local tanneries (F. W. Steads is still there).The Skinners was a very good local pub and was known as an Irish pub for many years. It was always a Tetleys pub.

wayniac · Post by **wayniac** » Sat 22 Mar, 2008 2:03 am

Ollie wrote: raveydavey wrote: wiggy wrote: Trojan wrote: drapesy wrote: The Former Victoria (latterly the'Trotters') on York road- now a pet shop. Quite a good name for a pub "The Fish and Reptiles" a better name for that hole would of been'the bulletts and blades'. The Fish and Reptiles would probably have summed up most of the patrons... The Dog and Gun / Melbourne/ Shaftesbury / White Horse / Eagle / Hope Inn / Woodpecker...but for the likes of me, I can not picture where the Victoria was, must be having a serious senior moment, to much Tetleys Bitter in times gone by...can some one point out the location for my brain cells to get around.Frank I visited all those pubs both as a beer mat collector when I was about 10 years old and later as a drinker (15 or 16). The old Hope Inn was right on York Road at the Intersection and was very close to the old Hemingways Brewery which stood just above the Old Hope Inn and down from the York Road baths and the library.My earliest pub visits were the White Horse and the Black Dog. My Dad always used to go in the Fisherman's Hut on a Sunday lunchtime and odd times to the Cavalier and come home late in the afternoon and we would all be waiting for our Sunday dinner (lunch).I did most of my revising for my 'O' Levels in the tap room at the White Horse, over the pinball machine.I always liked the Black Dog, it had a nice little snug, a lounge with a juke box and a tap room for the blokes.The current landlord of the Hope Inn went to Temple Moor and I remember his big brother from my Victoria school days.The old Victoria pub had a row of shops above it, including Adlemans and almost opposite was an old dairy. Up from the dairy was Currotos? A newsagent where my Dad always bought his Saturday sporting life. Up another block at the end of the Raincliffes was Danny Greens, the demon barber. He was an old boxer and the only cut he knew was short back and sides. I was happier going to the school dentist on Harehills Lane than Danny Greens. He used to make you wait forever if a grown-up came into for a haircut or a moustache singe. Next door to Danny Greens was a wallpaper shop and above was my tooth saving dentist after I fled the dental school, Melvyn Sumroy. He was a great dentist.Next up was Victoria school and then the row of shops starting with Harry Cryers, the grocer and McNicholls hardware store.I guess this is about pubs, but I got on a roll there, haha...

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Sat 22 Mar, 2008 2:07 am

johnnyg wrote: The Skinners was a very good local pub and was known as an Irish pub for many years. It was always a Tetleys pub. Thanks for that bit of info on the Skinners 'Johnnyg'...it was a good pub, along with the Albion and the Sheepscar, used to be a good triangle of pubs to walk round before heading along to the Globe and then up to the Oatlands on a Friday night...remember the women waiting outside the Sheepscar to get their house keeping money, before the wages all went up against the wall...bloody drugs, that's what killed the pubs and society as a whole, remember back in the early sixties when 'Purple Hearts' came on the scene...that was the start for the drug pushers to move in.

johnnyg · Post by **johnnyg** » Mon 24 Mar, 2008 3:26 pm

Another that shut recently is the Mustard Pot on Stainbeck Lane. It shut in December 2007/January 2008 and hasn't opened since although everything is intact inside.